BlueOcean

DECEMBER 18, 2018

And you’re ready for your outsourced customer service RFP to hit the road and bring you some stellar options for a new contact center partner. Here’s the short list of the best questions to ask about AI in the contact center. Looking for more contact center RFP questions? CAPABILITIES & PROCESS.

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Call Experts

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) Those metrics were born in an era when customer service was a race, where whoever got to the finish line first (i.e. How do we use that data to improve the customer experience?

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Call Experts

APRIL 8, 2024

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

If agents are frustrated, we can only imagine that the customers they’re speaking with are too. Finding Bilingual Support That Suits Your Customers Best We’re an onshore Canadian contact center outsourcer and pride ourselves on delivering sophisticated (bilingual) customer care through strategic partnership.

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Hello Customer

MAY 19, 2021

Organizations have multiple touchpoints which define their level of customer centricity. We think of touchpoints such as digital channels and salespeople, but many often forget the one that is perhaps the most important, the contact center. Yet, these centers often don’t get the attention and recognition they deserve.

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COPC

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

These changes were highlighted during the Optimizing Pandemic Contact Center Outsourcing Relationships pre-event workshop that COPC Inc. hosted as part of this fall’s Execs In The Know’s Customer Response Summit. The outsourcing contact center market is becoming more competitive. WFH Insights.

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Call Experts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Three primary trends are driving the customer care industry: diversified cloud-based solutions. By actively harnessing a set of cloud-based AI-powered technologies, contact centers are infusing intelligence across the entire customer contact landscape. More Blogs Menu.

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Upstream Works

MAY 13, 2020

Every contact center has a universal goal: to provide exceptional customer service. It requires a holistic customer experience (CX) strategy, a responsive data strategy and the flexibility to adapt to a changing world. The foundation for omnichannel contact center success is your long-term strategy.

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SaleMove

MARCH 12, 2021

In today’s consumer-driven world where the overall experience is a top differentiator, customer care organizations are now at the forefront of innovation. Those that embrace new technologies to enhance the customer experience often pull ahead exponentially, leaving those that stagnate to fall ever further behind.

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SaleMove

JANUARY 20, 2021

In our previous blog in The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Series , we discussed how virtual agents, or bots, are transforming the contact center workplace, pushing live human agents to become strategic troubleshooting experts and managers to become agent coaches.

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Think Customers

JANUARY 18, 2022

Leading contact centers understand that each person and tool has its strengths and weaknesses, and create a better customer experience when combined appropriately. To better understand this, let’s dive into the human and robotic makeup of a modern contact center. What is a contact center associate?

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Call Experts

JUNE 3, 2021

How to enhance the client experience in an age of quickly progressing tech with contact center services? 90% of Americans use customer service as a factor in deciding whether or not to do business with a company. You understand that having a high-quality contact center service is essential to running an effective business. .

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BlueOcean

MARCH 31, 2022

If you’ve been a reader of Blue Ocean’s blog for any length of time, you probably know we love sports and particularly baseball. Let’s look at what sports can teach us about consistency in achieving contact center service levels—and how to adapt to even the most unexpected outcomes. Practice Makes (Almost) Perfect.

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Integrity Solutions

MARCH 3, 2020

The most persistent contact center challenges can be overcome by making coaching a part of the culture and developing your agents’ listening and problem-solving skills. For several years we’ve been participating in Customer Contact Week (CCW), the world’s largest customer contact event series.

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Avaya

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Sheila McGee-Smith is a leading communications industry analyst and strategic consultant with a proven track record in new product development, competitive assessment, market research, and sales strategies for customer care solutions and services. The post Why Artificial Intelligence Now—and Why in Customer Care?

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Think Customers

JULY 14, 2015

These benefits can also extend to the contact center where customer sentiment and performance data (customer satisfaction, first contact resolution rates) can be evaluated by customer care leaders to identify opportunities for improving the customer experience along with operational performance.

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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

According to Forbes, poor customer service is costing businesses more than $75 billion a year. The pressure to reduce contact center costs is immense. But many contact center leaders struggle to achieve these outcomes while simultaneously improving customer satisfaction.

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Think Customers

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

That’s why your contact center associates need to be faster and better prepared to handle increasing demands while delivering superior service. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Robotic Desktop Automation (RDA) are emerging software that contact center leaders are deploying to tackle the mundane tasks that burden associates.

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SaleMove

MARCH 12, 2021

In today’s consumer-driven world where the overall experience is a top differentiator, customer care organizations are now at the forefront of innovation. Those that embrace new technologies to enhance the customer experience often pull ahead exponentially, leaving those that stagnate to fall ever further behind.

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SaleMove

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Today’s contact center managers focus primarily on agent performance and customer service level metrics, and using those metrics to drive staffing, training and technology investment decisions. . Available technologies and customer care requirements are changing rapidly.

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SaleMove

JANUARY 20, 2021

In our previous blog in The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Series , we discussed how virtual agents, or bots, are transforming the contact center workplace, pushing live human agents to become strategic troubleshooting experts and managers to become agent coaches.

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Avaya

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

I recently had the pleasure of co-hosting a webinar with leading Communications Industry Analyst Sheila McGee-Smith titled “ How AI Drives Results in the Contact Center ” and the question posed was: “What does AI mean for those working in the contact center? So, why AI now for customer care?

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Strativity

MARCH 30, 2020

This is especially true for employees working in contact centers and customer care departments who are tasked with providing customers with information, support, and a positive experience. Changes to the modern contact center environment . Think we can help? Let’s talk!

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 24, 2018

So many companies are enjoying the benefits of having moved their contact centers to the cloud over the past few years. Often companies started with a small deployment in one department and gradually grew that implementation to encompass all the contact center applications in the business. Digital Transformation.

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Upstream Works

JULY 17, 2019

Whichever channels your customers use, accommodate their preference with your omnichannel contact center and offer them a consistently great experience. . Another way to give the customer an effortless experience is to be aware of what’s happening in the contact center and use that knowledge to better manage your interactions.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 19, 2019

With more than 340,000 members nationwide, DentalPlans.com has created a fast-growing niche in dental care by marketing dental savings plans to consumers as an affordable alternative to dental insurance. Outbound callers generate membership sales and renewals, while customer care agents handle provider and member care.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) completely transform the consumer experience and bring contact center software out of the dark ages? It’s not surprising that many contact center leaders feel a little unsure of when, where or why to implement AI in their call center operations.

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Upstream Works

MARCH 26, 2020

The rationale here for use in the business is clear, but the same tools used for collaboration also has newfound utility in the contact center. This is especially true for video and co-browse customer care solutions. Learn more and see it in action: www.upstreamworks.com/demo.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2019

This rings especially true in the contact center, where many of the simpler, repetitive tasks are still performed by humans. It’s a crucial part of the contact center and the longer you wait to deploy it the further behind your competition you fall. The post Guest Blog: Are You Setting the Right Customer Experience Goals?

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Think Customers

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

In April, I posted a blog about the difficulties that sales, marketing, and customer care leaders face in obtaining a truly comprehensive view of customers. While this is hardly a shocking revelation, it's dismaying how little progress has been made on this front.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

You are out there setting the standard for others to follow (And please, get in touch so we can get you signed on for a guest blog spot). If you answered “no, our social customer care is most definitely not kicking ass” – don’t worry, you’ve come to the right place. Social Customer Care Cannot Be Ignored.

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SaleMove

JULY 29, 2019

This is the first installment of a blog series that examines the trends driving the transformation, reviews how people work in today’s contact center, and explores what you should do now to staff the contact center of tomorrow. Start Swimming. “ You better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone.”

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BlueOcean

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We also published loads of content to share our insights and experiences in the world of customer care. Below you’ll find our top 10 most popular blog posts of 2019 – grab a cup of coffee and get reading! The True Cost of Losing a Customer. Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care?

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COPC

JANUARY 31, 2018

In our quarterly blog series, Ask the Experts, we ask COPC Inc. experts questions about specific areas for improving operational performance in call centers, customer experience operations, vendor management organizations and procurement. How are these technologies currently being deployed in the contact center?

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ClearAction

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Are Your Customer Care Metrics Customer-Centric? Customer care metrics are a barometer of performance across a variety of customer interactions such as chat, text messages, email, social media and communities. Both of these orientations tend to be company-serving rather than customer-focused.

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NICE inContact

MAY 12, 2017

2017 was arguably the biggest and best year ever at Enterprise Connect 2017 for those who care about contact centers. For ten years, I have attended virtually every contact center session held at the show, the past few years as the Contact Center Track Chair. Is Cloud Contact Center the New Normal?

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